Well I managed to get through my lawn work without dismembering myself, at least for now: There's more to be done, but I have made tremendous progress. The other thing I accomplished this weekend was to make a couple of batches of barbecue sauce for the grilling season. One is a mostly from-scratch one that I'm not sure about, as it's heavy on umami, so I'm not sure if it will compliment the flavor of meats or just confuse them. The other was amore traditional ketchup-based sauce that had a gimmicky special ingredient. I imagined this would be a novelty, but it turned out so great I think I will make it the "house" sauce, and hold back what the secret is and see if anyone ever guesses.

Halo wrote on Mar 19, 2012, 18:33:Besides the obvious what is it? An etching from thousands of years ago? some organic mass? Why is it in a crucified pose? If the Space jockey has access to the type of equipment he was found in why would he carve a rock? That kind of history recording died out a while ago.

Perhaps it was a primitive warning from an ancestor or some other species. Ridley Scott has been waffling about whether an actual alien will be in the movie in some form or not but it's a safe bet they will explore them in some way if the space jockeys are a big part of things. Maybe we'll discover they weren't trying to warn us but instead were trying to direct the aliens somewhere else. It's been rumored that they bio-engineered the xenomorphs as a weapon of mass destruction and that theory makes sense in the context of finding so many egg thingies on their ship in the first movie.

Anyway really looking forward to Prometheus! Cast looks excellent, hope Scott still has his A game.

Hmmm yeah I never really thought of them as weapons... I've never been excited for a movie this much in a WHILE.

Halo wrote on Mar 19, 2012, 18:33:Besides the obvious what is it? An etching from thousands of years ago? some organic mass? Why is it in a crucified pose? If the Space jockey has access to the type of equipment he was found in why would he carve a rock? That kind of history recording died out a while ago.

Perhaps it was a primitive warning from an ancestor or some other species. Ridley Scott has been waffling about whether an actual alien will be in the movie in some form or not but it's a safe bet they will explore them in some way if the space jockeys are a big part of things. Maybe we'll discover they weren't trying to warn us but instead were trying to direct the aliens somewhere else. It's been rumored that they bio-engineered the xenomorphs as a weapon of mass destruction and that theory makes sense in the context of finding so many egg thingies on their ship in the first movie.

Anyway really looking forward to Prometheus! Cast looks excellent, hope Scott still has his A game.

DNForever wrote on Mar 19, 2012, 17:58:That kid who tried to light his explosive lined underwear on fire was like 15 or 16. At that age is borderline brainwashing, so I wouldn't put it over a serious terrorist organization to pull off something like explosives in a kids wheelchair. Look what they were able to do on 9/11, which before that would have seemed like a made up thing.

i think you are missing the point. they separated the kid who was visibly scared and upset from his father. if you or the TSA thinks the wheelchair had explosives then by all means examine it but dont prevent the dad from comforting his child. holding a childs hand is not gonna make for a suspicious terrorist act.

Besides the obvious what is it? An etching from thousands of years ago? some organic mass? Why is it in a crucified pose? If the Space jockey has access to the type of equipment he was found in why would he carve a rock? That kind of history recording died out a while ago.

Doesn't bother me at all. People love complaining about airport screening, and it's mostly rich white people whining about being inconvenienced. I've flown around as much as anyone and periodically they give me the wand or whatever, or make you open your bags. Big deal. This Christmas I wrapped a gift (BBQ sauces for my brother in law) knowing full well they'd probably open it. They did, and I just taped it back up again when I got there. It's either the gov't is lazy and not protecting us or we live in a fascist "police state".

That kid who tried to light his explosive lined underwear on fire was like 15 or 16. At that age is borderline brainwashing, so I wouldn't put it over a serious terrorist organization to pull off something like explosives in a kids wheelchair. Look what they were able to do on 9/11, which before that would have seemed like a made up thing.

jdreyer wrote on Mar 19, 2012, 16:23:Don't watch the full trailer above, it gives away too much. Just watch the teaser, which gives the flavor without revealing too much. If the trailer looks interesting, then just wait for the full movie to come out.

Yeah, when I sent that into Blue, I mentioned my frustration with trailers these days, and how they sometimes give the entire plot to the movie (hello, XMen: First Class).

Don't watch the full trailer above, it gives away too much. Just watch the teaser, which gives the flavor without revealing too much. If the trailer looks interesting, then just wait for the full movie to come out.